What’s missing from public relations now that the world’s all atwitter over social media? Strategy. Sound, defensible strategy. Or at least that’s an apparent impression from a piece I read not long ago in the New York Times.
“Spinning the Web; PR in Silicon Valley” profiled a Silicon Valley public relations practitioner and her planning session [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2009
Is PR all atwitter over social media?
August 23, 2009 – 8:41 pm
Bernanke: U.S. "Appears to be on the road to recovery." But are we in the sweet spot?
August 21, 2009 – 2:06 pm
A few weeks ago, several global banks and investment groups captured headlines by proclaiming the end to the longest recession to hit the U.S. since the Great Depression. Barry Knapp, a strategist with Barclays, is quoted widely as saying, “We may be in the sweet spot of recovery.”
That’s a nice place to be, of course, [...]
An inauspicious start to the campaign…
August 17, 2009 – 8:30 pm
After a couple of morning meetings and a lunch time conversation with a true social media guru, Dave Evans, I sat down late today with a veteran Texas political reporter. We immediately began to discuss the day’s big political news: word from the world of twitter, facebook and blog postings that Kay Hutchison’s announcement tour [...]
Let the GOP Primary Games Begin
August 16, 2009 – 9:39 am
Monday, the fun begins.
U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison will announce her candidacy to run for Governor of Texas rather than for re-election to the most exclusive of clubs – the United States Senate.
I am not surprised by her decision. Two years ago, a delegation of Chamber of Commerce [...]